The feral elite and The Thing

The Compass campaign to identify a 'feral elite', that parallels the feral underclass, has some remarkable parallels with the campaign nearly two centuries ago by the great radical William Cobbett.  This is how I put it on the new economics blog:

http://www.neweconomics.org/blog/2011/09/23/time-to-resurrect-cobbetts-campaign-against-the-thing